Bush: Worst Ever?

The question is being asked "is G.W. Bush the worst President ever? To a small percentage he is as popular as Reagan, which to my mind was a bad President--because of Iran-Contra, using Carter's stolen debate notes, the Saving and Loan scandal, creating a propaganda machine in the White House, and "stealing U.S. arms to supply Iran with, etc. Both pandered to the corporate elite and made them much richer, at the expense of the Middle Class Americans.
What is G.W.'s accomplishments?Well, he has been good at lowering taxes for the rich and affluent; his first and main accomplishment. Corporations have received welfare at a historically high amount. The Military Establishment has done very well during G.W.'s reign.
But, his evaluation should be done in the context of the times--for no other President has had the military and economic power at his fingertips as this one. No other President has had the need to be as responsible as this one. Because of Bush the U.S. is now under obligation to rebuild Iraq and extract itself in such a manner as it doesn't leave a military and political vacuum. How the next administration is able to deal with the mess will perhaps absolve the Bush administration for some of the consequences on one hand, and put blame for the results on the Bush administration on the other hand. In reality all of the blame for bad consequences should fall on the Bush administration as Bush started something comparable to "Pandora's Box", that the consequences of the invasion were as uncertain as the "certainty" of the existence of "weapons of mass-destruction" before the U.S. invaded Iraq.
Bush's China trade policy has put the U.S. in jeopardy economically and militarily. Bush spouts rhetoric about Freedom and Democracy, all the while engaging in trade which enriches a Communist country; allowing that country to use U.S. currency against the U.S. in competing for world oil and other strategic resources.
Hasn't anyone in Bush's administration read "The Art of War" by Sun Tsu? Or watch the Communist Chinese arm and otherwise aid our potential enemies, develop its own war machine, go after oil resources, destroy our manufacturing base by providing us cheap goods? This "bird" will someday come back to roost.
Energy policy should have been one of the most important of Bush's policies. We are importing over 60% of our oil from foreign sources, yet nothing is being done to promote conservation and developing alternatives for oil. If the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car" has any truth to it there was a deliberate and successful elimination of an alternative to gasoline. Nothing has been done by this administration about raising the mileage per gallon of gasoline in American cars. Automobile corporations over citizen's and the national interest.
Bush's use of Propaganda--instead of honest persuasion and the laying out of valid facts this President has chosen to repeatedly use Propaganda campaigns to promote his agendas. Bush engaged in a six month Propaganda campaign leading up to the Iraq war, which I pointed out to the media at the time, and which they ignored, instead the media echoed the administration propaganda messages. The GAO and Congress should investigate this issue (misuse of public funds for propaganda purposes).
Wire-Tapping without warrants is against the law; no matter what the justification or need is. To do so without targeting particular citizens, by haphazardly casting a large net, is doubly, triply, compoundedly gross criminal activity, no matter how patriotic it may be or for who orders it. In fact it is unpatriotic to break the laws against "the people", which indiscriminate wire-tapping is.
Torture, whether in Iraq or in the U.S., is considered a no-no; placing our own forces at risk. The test should be if the act is considered torture if it is used on our troops and labeled as such; i.e., would our government consider "water-boarding" against our troops as being torture? The general consensus by many is "water-boarding" is torture. Bush is then condoning torture in order to get information out of what he determines to be "the bad guys".
Pardoning his cronies all the while letting U.S. Border agents rot in jail. Hypocracy, there is no doubt that a double standard exists in this administration--his father pardoned his cronies and G.W. does it.
Since G.W. has a year to go he has plenty of time yet to screw up or make changes. The "worst ever"? I'd say he is right up there with the worst, if not at their head. Since we are still in the dark about what he and his cronies have been up to, it might be worse than we think!